About Our-Venue.com · Est. 2015
You are your own event planner.
Our-Venue.com turns a venue enquiry into an instant, customizable quote, so planning your event happens on your terms, not in an inbox.
Our story
Built by people who'd just planned a wedding, and hated it.
In late 2015, two newly-married engineers had learned the hard way how painful event planning really is: chasing quotes across a dozen venues, waiting days for email replies, and never knowing how one choice would move the budget.
So they built the tool they wished they'd had.
Our-Venue.com lets you browse your area's finest venues, customize every detail of your event, and watch your quote update in real time. Plenty of beautiful venue directories exist; what makes Our-Venue.com different is interaction. You don't just view a venue, you build your event inside it and get a live quote on the spot. For venues, that means more enquiries and quotes built in minutes instead of days.
Refined across five generations of the platform and guided from day one by real conversations with couples and venues, Our-Venue.com now serves venues across South Africa, the wider African continent, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom.
- 2015
- Two newly-married engineers start building Our-Venue.com.
- 2016
- V1 launches; named a Top 20 Most Innovative Product in South Africa (Hack Jozi). First venues sign on.
- 2018–20
- The platform scales across South Africa, then expands into the rest of Africa.
- 2022
- Launches into the Caribbean and the United Kingdom.
- Today
- Running on V5, ranking #1 on relevant searches, and growing.
The people behind it
A small team, close to every venue.
Tiaan Naude
Founder & Head Developer
The technical brain. Tiaan architects the platform that turns messy, one-off venue pricing into software that quotes in real time, and keeps it fast, reliable and always improving.
Jason Scott
Founder & Head of Sales
The dealmaker. Jason leads growth and partnerships, bringing new venues onto the platform and making sure every one of them gets real value from day one.
Michiel Basson
Head Manager & Client Liaison
The operator. Michiel runs day-to-day operations and brings deep event-industry know-how to every venue, so each app reflects how real events actually work.